Last week I had a chance to talk to a number of media outlets about the Softbank/Sprint deal.

CCTV –

NPR – http://www.npr.org/2012/10/15/162963605/softbank-buys-20-billion-stake-in-sprint-nextel

Wired – http://www.wired.com/business/2012/10/sprint-softbank-20-billion/

New York Times – http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E1D81E3AF931A25753C1A9649D8B63&ref=cellphones

Seattle Times – http://seattletimes.com/html/technologybrierdudleysblog/2019441313_does_sprint_deal_really_put_cl.html

I will have more to say about the deal in our quarterly update next month. For regular readers, the deal shouldn’t be a surprise as we have predicted such consolidation two years ago in our Competitive landscape paper.